Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis, ejusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis, ejusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran..., quae ante annos CCCC ... D. Petrus abbas Cluniacensis per viros eruditos ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curavit. His adjunctae sunt confutationes multorum, & quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinorum, unà cum ... Martini Lutheri praemonitione ... Adjunctae sunt etiam, Turcarum ... res gestae maximè memorabiles, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usque tempora. Haec omnia in unum volumen redacta sunt opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri

Short Title

Coran. Latin

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Language

2198

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

Bibliographical references:

Individuals

Descriptive card

3 parts in 1 vol. ([23, 1 bl.], 230, [9, 1 bl.] ; [8], 178, [2 bl.] ; 163, [1 bl.] p.) ; fol. Own title pages for parts 2 and 3 On the back of the title page, Bibliander's letter to the Christian reader dated 1543 Contributions by Paolo Giovio, Raffaele Maffei, Francesco Negro, Bartolomeo Picerno, Guillaume Postel, Jacopo Sadoleto, Juan Luis Vives2nd edition of the Koran in Latin, later given by Bibliander and Melanchton after the 12th-century translation by Peter the Venerable, Robert of Ketton and Herman the Dalmatian and printed for John Oporin in Basel in 1543 by Nikolaus Brylinger. 3rd issue with the ‘Praemonitione’ under the name of Melanchton their true author, the 1st issue attributing them to Luther and the 2nd issue to Luther and Melanchton. Ornate woodcut letters. Part 3 incomplete. Bound with : Joannis Cantacuzeni Constantinopolitani regis Contra Mahometicam fidem christiana & orthodoxa assertio, Graecae conscriptae ante annos feré ducentos, nunc vero Latinitate donata, Rodolpho Gualthero Tigurino interprete... . Adjecta est eadem Graece scripta.... - Basileae, [1543]. 16th century binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier with the motto ‘Jo Grolieri et amicorum’ in the centre of which were stamped the arms of Gaspard III Fieubet de Naulac, seigneur de Cendrey et de Ligny (0.H.R., 252) (cf ‘Le roi et l'artiste : François Ier et Rosso Fiorentino’, exhibition, Château de Fontainebleau, 23 March-24 June 2013, fig. 41). The Printers of Basle in the XVet XVI centuries, p. 184

Entry author

Marina Santana